AIB bank occupied by students

emptybladder

Perhaps those two students
Protestors photographed on the front page of the advertiser should spend more time in education than protesting. Unless their misplaced apostrophes on the placard were meant to be ironic. Dcikheads

Nok1a

emptybladder wrote: »

Perhaps those two students
Protestors photographed on the front page of the advertiser should spend more time in education than protesting. Unless their misplaced apostrophes on the placard were meant to be ironic. Dcikheads

Did you spend too much time protesting?

emptybladder

Meh ... stupid iPhone and it's auto paragraph returns

Stark

They must be hoping that AIB are still giving out free phones.

TheCosmicFrog

I was there, albeit not inside the bank. It originally started off as an NUIG SU-supported protest march to Brian Walsh's constituency office. On the way back down Eglinton St., a FEE member shouted, "Go down Shop Street!" to the front of the march.

By this point, the NUIG SU banners had disappeared and Socialist Worker Party newspapers started coming out from every angle. I'm more than a little skeptical of the "unplanned" description of this "unplanned occupation".

WallyGUFC

Phenomenally Phrank wrote: »

Woohoo!This little gathering will bring thew might AIB crashing to it's knees, with any luck!

Yeah, because the country wouldn't descend into oblivion if this happened at all at all...

PauricTheLodger

Once again, the Student Union agrees to take FEE to a protest. Once again, FEE decided to go somewhere that wasn't part of the agreed plan*.

Did this go the same way as the large USI Dublin student protest/FEE occupation of the Department of Finance and be the main thing that people spoke of afterwards? Namely, students causing disruption to general public after going AWOL.

I'm glad that I'm unemployed and broke like most of the rest of the country because I'd be in a worse mood about this nonsense if I'd actually had to use the bank that day.

* As far as I'm aware.

Nok1a

PauricTheLodger wrote: »

Once again, the Student Union agrees to take FEE to a protest. Once again, FEE decided to go somewhere that wasn't part of the agreed plan*.

Did this go the same way as the large USI Dublin student protest/FEE occupation of the Department of Finance and be the main thing that people spoke of afterwards? Namely, students causing disruption to general public after going AWOL.

I'm glad that I'm unemployed and broke like most of the rest of the country because I'd be in a worse mood about this nonsense if I'd actually had to use the bank that day.

* As far as I'm aware.

Seems to be the case.

In my opinion one of the main reasons that Ireland hasn't gotten behind protests(like greece / portugal / france for example) is because the same right wing trouble makers(who seem to drift from protest to protest with no real policies/ideas other than to get a bit of publicity) end up high jacking every protest. End result is the protest organisers (in this case the SU) who originally intended to organise a genuine official peaceful protest against a specific policy are left looking like a bunch of disorganised gorillas who are associated with troublemakers.

kabakuyu

is because the same right wing trouble makers(who seem to drift from protest to protest with no real policies/ideas other than to get a bit of publicity)

Who are these right wing agitators you refer to?

TheCosmicFrog

Nok1a wrote: »

...the same right wing trouble makers.

left?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

emptybladder wrote: »

Perhaps those two students
Protestors photographed on the front page of the advertiser should spend more time in education than protesting. Unless their misplaced apostrophes on the placard were meant to be ironic. Dcikheads

Those placards were mass-produced by the SU and those students didn't realize that they were carrying such travesties of posters. I can assure you that they spent quite a lot of time in education and the photo paints a misleading image. They were specifically told by the camera-man to show the placard so I'd attach more blame to him and the Advertiser in general.

Mrs OBumble

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Those placards were mass-produced by the SU and those students didn't realize that they were carrying such travesties of posters. I can assure you that they spent quite a lot of time in education and the photo paints a misleading image. They were specifically told by the camera-man to show the placard so I'd attach more blame to him and the Advertiser in general.

Frankly, I'd expect that anyone who'd learnt anything from their education would know better than to let themselves get set up by a photographer, especially from such obvious mistakes on posters.

Lockstep

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Those placards were mass-produced by the SU and those students didn't realize that they were carrying such travesties of posters. I can assure you that they spent quite a lot of time in education and the photo paints a misleading image. They were specifically told by the camera-man to show the placard so I'd attach more blame to him and the Advertiser in general.

Both the photographed students are very active in the FEE campaign, why were they using SU placards when the SU leaves the materials in the AnML for anyone to make their own?

ZRelation

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Those placards were mass-produced by the SU and those students didn't realize that they were carrying such travesties of posters. I can assure you that they spent quite a lot of time in education and the photo paints a misleading image. They were specifically told by the camera-man to show the placard so I'd attach more blame to him and the Advertiser in general.

So they didn't even read the placards they were carrying?

celty

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Those placards were mass-produced by the SU and those students didn't realize that they were carrying such travesties of posters. I can assure you that they spent quite a lot of time in education and the photo paints a misleading image. They were specifically told by the camera-man to show the placard so I'd attach more blame to him and the Advertiser in general.

So it's the photographer's fault because some student protesters were illiterate? I've read it all now